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Twee Pop is fucking fantastic.

As people send in their write ups, they could vote for somebody to be eliminated before the start of the tournament. Or something.

I think we need a better seeding system than that though. Have a panel of three or four of you guys come up with seeds, I think.

My dad started a quarterback (and sometimes DB) in highschool, and also in right field on the baseball diamond, and was a backup guard in basketball. This is the basis for my theory that I was adopted.

Calling Amobi Akoye a disapointment is kind of retarded, seeing as he's 2 years younger than most members of his draft class, and still managed to look pretty impressive at times (he was rookie of the month or something i think) and he collected a fair amount of sacks for a DT. He's really fucking young, he'll get better, and he'll get bigger for sure.

The NL is just as wide open as the AL. The Mets have 3 legit candidates, Chase Utley deserves consideration, Pujols and to a lesser extend Ludwick, Aramis Ramirez, maybe even Sabbathia and Brandon Webb get some votes.

Dude, Quentin plays the easiest position on the field.

The White Sox are in the pennant race because they hit home runs. Carlos Quentin does this the best, he's the MVP. This is really shoddy logic and a completely flawed argument of me to make, but I'm lazy. In news that only devo, naiwf, NYU and I care about, Wilmer Flores got promoted for the second time in two days (although the first promotion was from one rookie league to another, not sure if that's really a "promotion") and went 3 for 4 with a double and a run batted in in his debut with Brooklyn tonight. I remind you he turned 17 three weeks ago. This makes me smile. EDIT: I'm not exactly sure why I'm discounting Youkilis, I can't exactly find a good reason. Back to Sizemore though, we really do have to exclude him from mvp talks because of his teams record. I mean, if we're going to completely exclude records, what about Aubrey Huff and his 29 home runs and 94 rbi? You see what I'm saying?

Joe Mauer shouldn't be an MVP candidate, at least not in my mind. He hits for a high average, and plays excellent defensively, but drives in very few runs and maybe this is just my perception as I can't really follow the twins that closely, but it seems like he takes a lot of days off, even for a catcher. Quentin is definitely the MVP. Czech is completely right that MVP should come from a winning team, but fuck, let's pretend just for the sake of argument that both the Indians and White Sox have identical records and are good teams. Quentin has more runs, home runs, runs batted in, hits for a higher average, and has a better OBP. Quentin is having a better season.

For pbone:

http://www.comcast.net/articles/sports-nfl...uars-Northcutt/ It seems like lately the Jaguars are promoting the idea that Jacksonville is a dangerous place to live (granted this incident didn't take place in jacksonville)

How are we voting?

I looked up the name of that Phillies color guy who was pissing me off; It's Larry Anderson.

DANIEL MUUURPPHYYYY And yeah, you have to pick up Delgado's option. Basically we either pick him up for 12 mil (the buyout would be 4 mil as it is, so it's more like an 8 million dollar contract), we open the checkbook for Mark Teixera and spend 160 million, we sign a first basemen who will not contribute, say Sean Casey or Kevin Millar or Rich Aurilla, or we bring up Mike Carp a year before he's ready. Actually, I suppose we have more options than that. Nick Evans plays first base, Daniel Murphy probably can too.

I'd like to formally apologize to Carlos Delgado. For everything.

I'm with NYU.

Phillies radio color guy is doing nothing but complain about umpiring tonight. Any validity to that?

aggggrrrrrhhhhhhhh

I wrote a fucking essay on my team.

Hey, another instance where little league baseball, for some of us the best part of being a 9 year old boy, is tainted by adults. How about that. 1.The head of the league, whoever that may be, can just put this kid on the 11-12 year old team. That happened all the time with kids when I was little. To tell him he can't pitch is, well it's completely unfair to the kid. 2.Jericho's coach is outlandishly irresponsible. As a 9 year, you really should NOT be pitching any more than three innings in a game, and it sounds like this kid was throwing complete games the whole season. You're going to hurt his arm. He's 9 fucking years old. 3.The opposing team that walked off the field and forfeited. Yeah, the team forfeited, right. Not a little league baseball coach in his mid 40's who's too fucking stubborn to go talk to the other coach. Basically, this douchebag told his kids that they can't play baseball today. 4.The kid's mom needs to calm down. Threatening to shut down the league accomplishes nothing. Shut up. There are club teams for 9 year olds, if you're that upset, find one. 5."League attorney Peter Noble". What kind of world do we live in where little league baseball organizations have fucking attorneys? This story upsets me.

So who are we calling the biggest snub of the draft? Andy Russell has a case.

You've been?

<3 Anyway, my best friend left for the czech republic this morning, and he'll be gone for a year. I'm going to miss him. Though I bet it kind of sucks more for him, I mean, what the fuck do they eat in the czech republic?

I had never heard Blonde on Blonde until today. I don't know what I was waiting for exactly. I have no idea how you guys find album covers that are all identical in size.

I second the above statement. Everyone needs more Pavement in their life.